Pyrolockon DPS

A quick look at the spec I'm running- it's unfortunately mostly ST, and there seems to be a few bugs with ZAM's soul calc regarding pyro- "Ravenous Flames" is actually a 3-point buy, and "Flame Spike" a 2-pointer. With my gear, it puts out ~2700-3k dps, after you have your Pillaging Stone stacks and if you remember to hit Heat Wave on cooldown (I never do).

http://rift.zam.com/en/stc.html?t=1zvIz.0c.bcfIzkc0ctqs.V0fa00c.-7

The macros you'd have for pyrolock still work, less the Cinder Burst opportunity one. Between the spell's 5.5 sec cast time and the lack of Opportunity or Pyromancer's Armor, it's not something you'll likely ever use. The alternative is to flip a total of 15 points into Warlock. If you do, I recommend 3/3 Improved Life Leech, 2/5 Magical Affinity, 5/5 Vitality, and 5/5 Opportunity. In archon, in that case, go 5/5 Soul Fire and 1/3 Strength of Stone. You'll only get 18 each of int/wis/dex/str, though, and you'll be losing Leeching Flames, the extra crit chance, and the archon's resistance-bypass, Spell Bore. I haven't parsed that one, though, so I don't know how well it would work.

On the flip side, you get a magic debuff; you get an additional dot (Leeching Flames), an additional 50 endurance and 54 of every other prime stat. It's a slightly expanded version of something I used to call my "unending mana spec," for pretty good reasons.

Macros

SV
#show searing vitality
suppressmacrofailures
cast [notactive] Internalize Charge
cast Searing Vitality

Countdown
#show Countdown
suppressmacrofailures
cast [notactive] Internalize Charge
cast Prime
cast Countdown

Life Leech
#show Life Leech
suppressmacrofailures
cast [notactive] Internalize Charge
cast Life Leech

Leeching Flames/Dark Touch
#show Leeching Flames
suppressmacrofailures
cast [notactive] Internalize Charge
cast Leeching Flames
cast Dark Touch

Firespam
#show flame bolt
suppressmacrofailures
cast flame bolt
cast Fireball

Heat Wave
#show Heat Wave
suppressmacrofailures
cast Heat Wave
cast [notactive] Internalize Charge
cast Fireball

Rotation
As mentioned earlier, this functions much like the 36/30 pyrolock. At the start of a pull, hit Crumbling Resistance; hit Searing Vitality, or your macro for it, once; and then Pillaging Stone five times. After that, you go into firespam from your Heat Wave, since you should have plenty of charge. Just lean on that particular button until Heat Wave's done with.

The rotation changes a little here as you step into your dots, since your Countdown gets a higher bonus from your Combust stacks. It's why I have Prime (which gives you five stacks) and Countdown macroed together- that way, I only have to hit that button twice rather than have two separate buttons I have to go find.

My priority is Combust stacks > Pillaging Stone stacks > Countdown > Leech Life > Leeching Flames > Dark Touch > Incinerate (proc) > Searing Vitality. Managing the dots is a lot easier if you use something like Karuul Alert or NKrebuff, if they ever fix that one.

For AOE, you'll want to do the same thing you used to do for the 36/30 build- hit Flame Bolt, let Fire Storm tick for three seconds (half the cast), break cast, and start a new one to keep the +10%SP bonus from Flame Bolt up- yes, it's still there, even if it's not on the tooltip.

» Edited on: 2012-10-18 09:33:11

Thanks - anxious to try this out!

Thank you Hosfi! I'll be giving this a shot as soon as I can log in! =D

Thanks Hosfi I really like this build. Only thing is I couldnt get the macro's to work properly so I tweaked the soul tree to compensate. Appreciate you posting this because I was at a loss with my mage after the patch =)

Thanks for this. Have you had the opportunity to compare this to a 51 pyro build for ST DPS? I'm curious how it compares. I'm getting way more ST out of 51 pyro than I ever did my pre-patch Pyrolock.

Thanks Hosfi! Got a good AOE build? Wyndshear

Mine's a 51 SC. It works for me, and it's a little complicated b/c you don't want to macro a lot of it.

Ya 51SC/11Dom/4Archon is what I usually use for AE and the single target is not to bad either. The AE rotation is a little difficult but the gist of it is: Forked Lighting X5 Hailstorm lightning field lightning storm then just forked lightning and Lightning field, until Hailstorm comes off of CD. Some people say to throw in a Artic blast, but I'm not sure if it is a DPS gain or not. I tend to not use it unless I have to move.

Also not to hijack Hosfi's thread, but 51 ele/15 necro does really good ST dps if you are able to keep the pet alive. And its super easy to play.

Until they nerf the pet. They said they were going to do it when the patch was still on the PTS; let's see how long that takes.